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Character Creation Challenge: Carl Kolchak
Going forward in time to another campaign I have been tossing around for a while. This one is set in the Summer of 1976. I don't have much planned yet save that it involves an increased upswing in...
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Character Creation Challenge: Virginia Dare
Continuing my "Spirit of '76" mini-campaign I want to get some more details on who my "big bad" might be. I say might, because I am not 100% sure yet what I want to do with her save for being the...
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Character Creation Challenge: Megan O'Kelly
Going to a character today that was one of the first (though not the first) Spirit of '76 characters I came up with. Megan O'Kelly came to me from a variety of sources, but the main one was the idea...
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Character Creation Challenge: Lee Jun-fan
Today's character could work with either my Victorian setting or Spirit of '76 for a lot of the same reasons. I have always been a big fan of Bruce Lee. I first saw him on the old Batman series as...
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Character Creation Challenge, Kickstart Your Weekend style
Something a little different today. I am interrupting my regularly scheduled Character Creation Challenge posts with a Kickstart Your Weekend style review.The Kickstarter for SURVIVE THIS!! Dark...
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Character Creation Challenge: Sherlock, Adventures in Time and Space
ETA: My post did not go as scheduled Saturday morning, so I am re-editing it with Sunday's post.I am a HUGE Sherlock Holmes fan. Last week's post on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson reminded me of that....
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Character Creation Challenge: The 11th Doctor for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ever have one of those times when things seem to line up a certain way? Yesterday I posted stats for Sherlock and Watson for the Doctor Who RPG, Adventures in Time and Space. In particular the one...
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Character Creation Challenge: Nancy Drew
I have to admit I rather enjoyed the old Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries. I was more partial to Nancy Drew; having a crush on Pamela Sue Martin and later Janet Julian. I was quite excited on...
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Mail Call: Victorian, Tasha and League of Malevolence
It's a month since Christmas, so I can buy things for myself again. And this is what the mail has given me this week.Vis Imperium Victoriana is a Victorian RPG using the same rules as Pendragon...
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Character Creation Challenge: Nik Nak, Goblin Warlock
Nik Nak by Jacob BlackmonI was waiting on today's Character Creation Challenge until I got my copy of Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse today. While this collects a bunch of material...
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Dungeons & Dragons Rules Expansion Gift Set
Grabbed the new Dungeons & Dragons Rules Expansion Gift Sets at my FLGS today. I have to admit I am a sucker for a boxed set.Comparisons of the new books to the older ones.The new book,...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Monsters, Classes and Raven Hex!
Ok. The day job is really busy this week so this is going to be a complete drive by. But here are three new Kickstarters I am excited about.Tome of Beasts 3: Full Throttle 5th Edition Monster...
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Character Creation Challenge: Motherland Fort Salem
I missed a couple of days last week on this. Busy at the day job. But I am making up for it today, the last day. Today I want to feature the witches of Motherland Fort Salem. Season 3 has not...
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Featured Artist: Brian Brinlee
Time for another Featured Artist post. I discovered today's artist, Brian Brinlee, in one of the fantasy art groups I frequent on Facebook. He had a great style and something about his art made me...
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Review: Comes Chaos
I am a complete sucker for anything B/X. While I have many games I love, it is B/X era D&D that really gets my nostalgia going. So anything made for it gets my attention. While the products,...
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One Man's God: Gods, Demigods, and Heroes
If you pardon the play on words here, the book Gods, Demigods, and Heroes holds a place of strange honor in the pantheon of D&D books. It was the last of the Original D&D Supplements,...
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#FollowFriday: Elf Lair Games
Ok. Today's #FollowFriday might be seen as a little self-serving...and it is. But that does not negate the fact that there are a lot of great things brewing over at Elf Lair Games!Elf Lair publishes...
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Monstrous Mondays: Monsters of the Multiverse (5e)
Back to Monstrous Mondays! A quick update on where I am at with my Basic Bestiary. Book 1 is done, I just have some editing and making sure my numbers are doing what I want them to do. I am going...
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Review: Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy
Arguably one of the biggest success stories of the late OSR movement has been the publication of Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy (2019) and Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy (2021). Indeed...
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Review: The Witch-Queen's Lament (OSRIC Adventure)
A couple of weeks back I noticed a posting in one of the Greyhawk groups on Facebook about a new adventure. It was called The Witch-Queen's Lament so you know it immediately had my attention. The...
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